Mewata calls for improved maternal health

 Prof Japhet Killewo, a medical doctor and Epidemiologist from Muhimbili University, speaks to experts who convened in Dar es Salaam to share research findings and discuss meaningful policies to address maternal and newborn health in Tanzania. The third year dissemination workshop was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and organized by partners within the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Muhimbili University, Johns Hopkins University and...

>Tanzania has scored low in a latest survey that assessed 58 low and middle income countries that desperately need nurses who specialise in maternal health, but it was a head of  its East African partners - Kenya and Rwanda.

Improved maternal health will not only boost the quality of life of mothers and their babies but also the welfare of the entire nation.

Exim Bank supports maternal health
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IN supporting government initiative to improve maternal and child health, Exim Bank Tanzania has identified and started to give aid in areas which seems to have been left out during planning. The Bank has long believed in its slogan "Innovation is life", thus ...

Shein calls for improved justice for all in Isles
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Bunge calls for improved Disaster Bill
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All regions in the country will now be rated periodically on progress to reduce the death of mothers and their newborns as the country attempts to beat next year’s Millennium Development Goals deadline.

Amid reports of increasing deaths resulting from teen pregnancy, Fatuma Maulidi, her husband and other family members were worrisome when she conceived aged 17. But they kept their fingers crossed and prayed to God that nothing bad happens to her and the child during delivery.